Mary Anoints Jesus

Date: 0030-03-30 (1D)

Locations: Bethany

Participants: Jesus, Mary, Martha, Lazarus

Scripture References

• John 12:1 — Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
• John 12:2 — There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
• John 12:3 — Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
• John 12:4 — Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,
• John 12:5 — Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
• John 12:6 — This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
• John 12:7 — Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
• John 12:8 — For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
• John 12:9 — Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
• John 12:10 — But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
• John 12:11 — Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

Last updated: May 7, 2025